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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34790	A letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret powers from which it appears, that it was never intended to confirm the alienation that was made of abbeylands : to which are added, two breves that Card. Pool brought over, and some other of his letters, that were never before printed.	Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686.; Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.	1685 (1685)	Wing C6631; ESTC R17149	17,951	40

the moveable Goods that were consumed by them yet since the perfecting of the Reduction of England would become so much the easier as the Pope gave the greater hopes of Gentleness and Favour in that matter he therefore not being willing to let any worldly Respects lie in the way of so great a Work as was the Recovery of so many Souls and in imitation of the tender-hearted Father that went out to meet the Prodigal Child empowers the Cardinal according to the Trust and Confidence that he had in him to transact and agree with such of the Possessors of them by the Pope's Authority for whom the Queen should intercede and to dispense with them for enjoying them in all time coming But the Salvo that comes in the end seems to take all this off For he reserves all to the Pope's Confirmation and good pleasure in all those things that were of such importance that the Holy See ought first to be consulted by Pool By these Powers all that Pool could do was only provisional and could not bind the Pope so that he might disclaim and disown him when he pleased And the Agreements that he made afterwards with the Parliament were of no force till they were confirmed by the Pope And as the Pope that succeeded Julius the Third who granted these Breves but died before the Execution of them was brought to him for his Confirmation would never confirm them so this whole Transaction was a publick Cheat put on the Nation or at least on the Possessors of the Abbey-Lands nor did it grant them either a good Title in Law I mean the Canon-Law or give any Security to their Consciences in enjoying that which according to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome is plain Sacrilege And therefore I cannot imagine how those of that Church can quiet their Consciences in the possession of those Lands It is plain by the progress of this matter that the Court of Rome never intended to confirm the Abbey-Lands for all that was done by Pool was only an Artifice to still Mens Fears and to lay the Clamour which the Apprehension of the return of Popery was raising that so it might once enter with the less opposition and then it could be easy to carry all lesser Matters when the great Point was once gained as the Saddle goes into the Bargain for the Horse And indeed tho a poor Heretick may hope for Mercy notwithstanding his Abbey-lands because it may be supposed to be a Sin of Ignorance in him so that he possesses them with a good Conscience and is that which the Law calls bonae Fidei Possessor yet I see no Remedy for such as go over to the Church of Rome for if there is a Sin in the World that is condemned by that Church it is Sacrilege so that they must be malae Fidei Possessores that continue in it after the enlightning which that Church offers them A Man may as well be a Papist and not believe Transubstantiation nor worship the Host as be one and still enjoy his Church-Lands Nor can any Confessor that understands the principles of his own Religion give Absolution to such as are involved in that Guilt without restitution So that it is a vain thing to talk of securing Men in the possession of those Lands if Popery should ever prevail For tho the Court of Rome would to facilitate our Reconciliation offer some deceitful Confirmation as was done by Cardinal Pool yet no Man after he went over to that Church could suffer himself to enjoy them Every Fit of Sickness or cross Accident would by the Priests Rhetorick look like the beginning of the Curse that fell on Ananias and Saphira The terrible Imprecations that are in the Endowments of Monasteries would be always tinging in his Ears and if Absolution were denied especially in the hour of Death what haste would the poor Man make to get rid of that Weight which must sink him into Hell For as he must not hope for such good Quarters as Purgatory so if he happened to go thither he would be so scurvily used by the poor Souls which have been kept frying there for want of the Masses which would have been said for them in the Abbey-Church if he had not with held the Rents that he would find so little difference between that and Hell that even there he might be tempted to turn Protestant again and believe that Purgatory was no better than Hell If any will object that at least Cardinal Pool's Settlement secures them till it is annulled at Rome To this as these Papers will offer an Answer since his Settlement was to have no force till it was confirmed by the Apostolick See which was never yet done So if our English Papists go into the Opinion that is now generally received and asserted in France That the Pope's power is limited by the Canons and subject to the Church then the Confirmation given by Cardinal Pool is null of it self tho it had been granted exactly according to the Letter of his Instructions Since there has been in several Ages of the Church so vast a number of Canons made against the Alienations of Church-Lands that if they were all laid together they would make a big Book For in the Ages of Superstition as the Church-men were mightily set on enriching the Church so they made sure Work and took special care that nothing should be torn from it that was once consecrated But I return from this Digression to give you some account of the other Letters that are in my Register There is a Letter of Cardinal Morone's to Pool of the 13 th of July sent also by Ormanet in which he tells him That tho the Emperor had writ very extravagantly of him to the Pope yet the Pope said he was sure there was no just occasion given for it And whereas the Emperor prest that Pool might be recalled the Pope continued firm in his resolution not to consent to so dishonourable a thing He adds That the Pope was not yet determined in the Business of the Church-lands but had spoken very often very variously concerning that matter After this there follows another Breve of the 10 th of July by which the Pope upon the consideration of the Prince of Spain's being married to the Queen of England enlarges Pool's Powers and authorizes him as his Legate to treat with him but this is meerly a point of Form Pool sent Ormanet with an account of this Dispatch that he had received from Rome to the Bishop of Arras to be presented by him to the Emperor All the Answer that he could procure as appears by Ormanet's Letter was That the Emperor had no News from England since his Son's Marriage but that he would send an Express thither to know the State of Affairs there which he thought must be done first before the Legate could go over And of this the Bishop of Arras writ to Pool three days